Map of silenced blogging voices

Check out this interactive map from Global Voices showing bloggers who have been silenced – that is threatened, arrested, or even worse – for speaking their minds online. Even in the US there was one — Elliot Madison, who was taken by the FBI for tweeting on how to evade arrest during the G20 protests […]

Brilliant infographics: The World of 100

Just stumbled upon this piece at Brainpickings, which points to a brilliant infographics website named The World of 100 made by a guy named Toby Ng. It visualizes statistics of the world in percentages boiled down to what he visualizes ‘if the world were a village of a 100 people’. See a couple of great […]

The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn’t want you to see

Oh joy, how I just love to sit and watch when big greedy corporations shoot themselves so immensely in the foot – in this case fashion mogul Ralph Lauren. The following blog piece is pasted from Boing Boing, by whom Ralph Lauren and their top-notch lawyers currently – and deservedly – are being keelhauled through […]

Surveillance on a unimaginable scale

As if London wasn’t already the most surveyed (or should that read ‘paranoid’?) city in the world, new heavily EU-funded surveillance development measures are under way in Britain that will exceed our wildest imagination. So far, it has been reassuring for us laymen to know that even if CCTV-systems monitor and record our every move […]

Working with Ogg Theora

The open standard, non-proprietary media format Ogg Therora (.ogg) is really catching on. Read this new article from the Free Software Foundation website. Excerpt: “Ogg Theora is becoming a big deal, and that’s exactly what he hoped for when we launched the PlayOgg campaign in May 2007. The free, patent-unencumbered video codec now works in […]

The Pirate Bay ownership to change hands?

This was just announced minutes ago on The Pirate Bay blog: TPB might change owner Yes, it’s true. News reached the press today in Sweden – The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB. A lot of people are worried. We’re not and you shouldn’t be either! TPB is being sold […]

Teaching copyright right

Quote from todays newsletter from EFF (the Electronic Frontier Foundation): “Last week, the Copyright Alliance Education Foundation – a nonprofit mouthpiece for the entertainment and software industries – unveiled plans to spread its protectionist ideas to the nation’s schools and libraries through the distribution of a curriculum titled “Think First, Copy Later.” “Think First, Copy […]

Just joined the Danish pirate party

I just joined the Danish pirate party, Piratpartiet, an equivalant to the Swedish pirate party, which has now grown to more than 44,000 members, fuelled especially by the so-called ‘spectrial‘-verdict (The Pirate Bay trial in which they were found guilty of assisting copyright infringement). While the Danish party is still relatively small (I believe they […]

Gee, I wish there was a way I could do less with my music, maybe someone is offering that product today

Cory Doctorow, author and web-savvyness extraordinaire, came up with the most dead-on one liner about the ridiculousness of the concept of DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection of online content, when he recently appeared before an audience of book publishers at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference: “No one woke up this morning and […]

Piracy – the result of a market failure

If you have just the slightest interest in the heated debate about filesharing and torrents going on right now, you should read the brilliant piece author Matt Mason (of the book The Pirate Dilemma fame – a truly eye opening book about the topic) has written for the TorrentFreak blog, adressing not only The Pirate […]